Abusive Cops- Exposing Abusive Individuals and Police Misconduct in Law

Offending Officer: Officer Durrell from 26th Precinct NYC
Victim: Samantha Zucker

Officer Durrell. YOU ARE A SLIMEBALL.

Here is another example of police abusing their authority. This young girl was locked up in jail for two days all because the cop that has been identified as Officer Durrell of the 26th District wouldn’t allow her or her friend to retrieve her ID that was a mere two blocks away.

Samantha Zucker was recently visiting New York City and went for a walk in Riverside Park at 3 am. As a visitor she was unaware that the park closed at 1am. Some police officers came to tell them they were trespassing. They had turned around to leave and another police car and announced he was citing them for trespassing and requested their ID’s. The only problem was she had left her ID at the hotel which was about two blocks away. The police officer would not allow her to retrieve it or to let her friend go get it for her. According to the girl he told her “It was too late for that”.

The real bothersome part of this story is the fact that she was held in jail for 36 hours and moved from one jail to another and during this time, she says the arresting officer came to her cell to taunt her. She states he told her to “Get a new Boyfriend” and “Get a guy who takes me out to dinner”. He also allegedly mocker her for being from Westchester.

Once she finally got in front of a judge, the judge realizing how ridiculous this was, dismissed her charges in less than a minute.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/york-city-cop-imprisons-college-student-without-id-151221707.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/14/eveningnews/main6678807.shtml

If you go to the link, you can see the video.

http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Woman-loses-job-as-County-prosecutor-after-confrontation-with-police-98372069.html

A police officer from Seattle named Ian Walsh assaulted a Woman and the confrontation was caught on video. The video speaks for itself. He didn’t need to punch this girl. The women were in the wrong as they were grabbing the arm of the officer, but I think the officer winding up to get a good solid punch on her was uncalled for.

Shame on you Ian Walsh! I hope you get what you deserve.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/11/philadelphia.cop.shot.self/index.html?hpt=T2

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100417/ap_on_re_us/us_cops_on_camera_5

From http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/21/undercover-drug-investigators-embarrass-polk-sheri/ on 9/22/2009

This is absolutely ridiculous. According to www.thedenverchanel.com, Derrick Curtis Saunders was the name of the police officer that pulled his weapon at a McDonalds over slow service. Saunders has been formally charged with menacing, prohibited use of a weapon, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct the website says as well.

Please tell us your thoughts on this issue or if you have had any interactions with Derrick Curtis Saunders of the Denver, CO police department.

http://current.com/items/90231501_cop-pulls-gun-at-mcdonalds-because-order-was-taking-too-long.htm

Shame on Sgt. Raul Ramirez. Just because you are a police officer does not mean you can do whatever you want. There were many people on the side of the road and Mr. Ramirez went directly after the news crew because they had a camera. He was not telling everybody to leave and when he told them to go back to their truck, the reporters did start to move back. Mr. Ramirez escalated the situation when one of the reporters said “He can shoot if he wants to”. This angers the cop and then his agenda instantly changes to making sure that the reporter knows that he can be arrested. He was told to go back to the truck and he did. This does not warrant the police officer rushing Darren Hunt and grabbing his belt and threatening him. He asks him if he wants to get arrested and then all of a sudden seems to change his mind and then arrests the reporter. He then grabs the cameraman who is watching in amazement and arrests him as well. The name of the cameraman was Ric Dupont.

Sgt. Ramirez is on administrative duty and if the investigation finds that he was in the wrong, he could face disciplinary action, which would most likely be a long-term suspension.

Please tell us your thoughts and if you have had any interactions with Sgt. Raul Ramirez.

Information was used from:

http://www.kvia.com/global/story.asp?s=10224525

http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=10216950

The cnn.com video starts off their news report with “One less drug dealer to deal with”. I personally did not hear it in the video but the audio quality was not the best.

The beginning of the video shows the off-duty officer mocking a dead victim, Rondale Jennings Sr, he encountered on the job, and then making fun of the victom’s grief stricken mother. While this may be totally distasteful and disrespectful, I don’t know if it warrants him losing his job. Maybe a suspension to give him time to recollect about how he really thinks about people? Mr. Cousins however was involved in his own internal affairs investigation and with another officer tried to locate the person who posted the video on youtube.com and then brought up the possibility of a federal wiretap charge. This seems like it could be a form of intimidation especially since this was recorded in public place and there is not really any basis for a wiretap charge. When Cousins located the brother of the man who posted the video online, Cousins was apparently in tears as he tried to find a way to have the video removed. The man also did not want his name used as he feared police reprisals. Are there more stories to be told about the Erie police department abuses? We would like to know.

So it is not necessarily the initial actions that were abusive, they were more just very disrespectful. It is the actions afterwords that appear to be an abuse of power and a very poor lack of judgment to the commanding officer that would allow Mr. Cousins to be involved in his own internal affairs investigation.

What are your thoughts?

Facts and information was used from “Erie Times News” and goerie.com http://goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090419/NEWS02/304199926 and http://goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090417/NEWS02/304179948

Roscoe